Jiminy’s cricket farm issued a bond with 20 years to maturity and a semiannual coupon rate of 5 percent 2 years ago. the bond currently sells for 96 percent of its face value. the company’s tax rate is 21 percent. the book value of the debt issue is $55 million. in addition, the company has a second debt issue on the market, a zero coupon bond with 8 years left to maturity; the book value of this issue is $30 million, and the bonds sell for 67 percent of par. a. what is the company’s total book value of debt? (enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars, e. g. 1,234,567.) b. what is the company’s total market value of debt? (enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars, e. g. 1,234,567.) c. what is your best estimate of the aftertax cost of debt? (do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e. g., 32.16.)

Evelyn would like to open a small business that is categorized as a being in the distribution industry. to do this she could open a establishment.

The economic advisor of a large tire store proposes the demand function d(p)equalsstartfraction 1900 over p minus 40 endfraction , where d(p) is the number of tires of one brand and size that can be sold in one day at price p. answer parts (a) through (e) below. a. recalling that the demand must be positive, what is the domain of this function? the domain consists of all possible values of ▼ for which ▼ p d(p) ▼ does not exist. is positive. is zero. is negative. exists.

Ajustification for job training programs is that they improve worker productivity. suppose that you are asked to evaluate whether more job training makes workers more productive. however, rather than having data on individual workers, you have access to data on manufacturing firms in ohio. in particu- lar, for each firm, you have information on hours of job training per worker (training) and number of nondefective items produced per worker hour (output). (i) carefully state the ceteris paribus thought experiment underlying this policy question. (ii) does it seem likely that a firm’s decision to train its workers will be independent of worker characteristics? what are some of those measurable and unmeasurable worker characteristics? (iii) name a factor other than worker characteristics that can affect worker productivity. (iv) if you find a positive correlation between output and training, would you have convincingly established that job training makes workers more productive? explain.